drm/i915: don't allocate fbcon from stolen memory if it's too big
Technology has evolved and now we have eDP panels with 3200x1800 resolution. In the meantime, the BIOS guys didn't change the default 32mb for stolen memory. On top of that, we can't assume our users will be able to increase the default stolen memory size to more than 32mb - I'm not even sure all BIOSes allow that. So just the fbcon buffer alone eats 22mb of my stolen memroy, and due to the BDW/SKL restriction of not using the last 8mb of stolen memory, all that's left for FBC is 2mb! Since fbcon is not the coolest feature ever, I think it's better to save our precious stolen resource to FBC and the other guys. On the other hand, we really want to use as much stolen memory as possible, since on some older systems the stolen memory may be a considerable percentage of the total available memory. This patch tries to achieve a little balance using a simple heuristic: if the fbcon wants more than half of the available stolen memory, don't use stolen memory in order to leave some for FBC and the other features. The long term plan should be to implement a way to set priorities for stolen memory allocation and then evict low priority users when the high priority ones need the memory. While we still don't have that, let's try to make FBC usable with the simple solution. Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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